Neuroscience
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The Worth of Wild Ideas
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
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Our Minds Remain Open When the LSD Wears Off
In a post-trip state, psychedelic researchers are finding, real healing begins.
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What Separates Highly Creative People
Brain scans reveal what fuels novel thinking.
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Loss of Smell May Be an Early Sign of Brain Diseases
Scientists have learned smell loss can be a diagnostic tool for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
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How to Drive a Car Through a Wall
The winner of 2023’s Best Illusion of the Year contest on the nature of science and magic.
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Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet
How the wager between a neuroscientist and a philosopher will keep paying off.
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Which Sex of Mouse Should You Ask for Directions?
The sex stereotypes built into animal research.
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Reality Is Your Brain’s Best Guess
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
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Forget What You Think You Know About Emotions
Emotions don’t happen to you; your brain creates them.
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Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
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Faulty Memory Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
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Your Brain Is Shaped Like Nobody Else’s
Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.
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What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT?
One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.
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Neuroscience Has a Race Problem
Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.
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The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.
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What Does Love Do to Us?
One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University.
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What the Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells in My Lab Are Telling Me
I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.
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Why Your Brain Isn’t Into the Future
What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.
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The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life
If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can?
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The Afterlife Is in Our Heads
The real meaning of near-death experiences.
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How We Remember Last Weekend
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
